A monumental Mark Rothko painting was removed from view at a Dutch art museum after a child scratched the canvas. Grey, ...

While visiting the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam, the child scratched the 1960 painting “Grey, Orange on Maroon, ...

Courtesy Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Mark Rothko’s Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 (1960), part of Rotterdam ...

An abstract painting thought to be worth millions of pounds has been damaged by a child at a gallery in the Netherlands. The ...

A work of art worth millions of dollars was accidentally damaged by a child in the Netherlands. BBC reports how the abstract ...

A visitor to the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, in Rotterdam, scratched a multimillion-dollar painting by Abstract ...

“The painting Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 by Mark Rothko has sustained superficial damage after a child touched the painting when it was on display," the museum said in a statement to PEOPLE. "As a ...

That's arguably the moral of the story after a child reportedly damaged a Mark Rothko painting worth a whopping $56 million.

The child, who hasn’t been identified, managed to deface the American painter’s 1960 abstract artwork during a visit to ...

A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch ...

Dutch curators are considering "next steps" after a child damaged the $56 million painting, "Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8," ...

It is not yet clear who will be held responsible for the cost of repairing Rothko's Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8.